Film-reeling mechanism.



' parts in both views.

Referring to the drawing, i designates the supporting frame or casing for the fihnv UHTEgATESlRMET BRUNO STECHBAR'I, Ofi CHCAGO, ELLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ALVIERCAN PROJECTENG COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, T LLNOES, A CORPORATION O- DEL'WARE.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Dec., Ml, i918.,

. @riginal application led may 7, 1917, Serial No. 166,866. Divided and this application led February 5,

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, BRUNO STECHBART, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicagofin the county of Cook, State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Film-Keeling Mechanism, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of film reeling mechanisms for motion picture machines described in detail in my piioi application for Letters Patent, Serial No.A

166,866,1iled May 7, 1917, whereof the present application is a division. .1

rllie object of the present improvement is to provide a ,simple and efficient safety gate or shut od for the mouth orentry of the magazine of a film reel, adapted to prevent the flame of a burning film extending into the interior of said magazine, upon the accidental firing of the picture film adjacent to the light passage of the 'apparatus, all as will hereinafter more fullyappear.

ln the accompanying drawing l Figure l, is a View showing the nlm feeding mechanism ofl a motion picture machine in elevation, and the associated film magazine and the present safety gate structure in section.

Fig. 2, is a det-ail top view of the safety gate structure aforesaid.

Like reference numerals indicate like feeding and guiding mechanism of a motion lpicture machine, and 2 designates a por-- tion of an associated magazine or ,casing adapted t0 contain a reel upon which the picture iilm is wound as it comes from the film feeding mechanism aforesaid, as usual in the present class of motion picture machines.

3 designates a take up sprocket drum associated with the film feeding mechanism, and adapted to take up and feed the film in a continuous manner to a take up reel-in the magazine 2 aforesaid. n,

4 designates guide and friction reducing rollersjassociated in adjacent parallel relation to the transverse margins of an opening or gap 5 inthe peripheral wall of the niagazine 2 and supported in place by the housing now to be described.

4 designates a box shaped housing asso ciated with the aforesaid peripheral opening 5 in. the magazine, and provided with bearings for the pair of transverse guide rollers 4 aforesaid, to a'ord a substantial support to said rollers and at the same time bring said rollers into near relation to the inner face of the inner wall of the magazine so that the film vill pass uninipeded from said'rollers to the film reel regardless of the tangential relation of the passing portion of the film.

6 designates a swinging valve or gate head, preferably of a triangular form in cross-section, arranged in' operative rela-i tion to the magazine entry orifice 5 aforesaid, and adapted to close the gap between the-pair of marginal rollers 4 in the event of the picture film taking fire outside the magazine.

7 designates a carrying plate or frame for the valve or gate head 6 aforesaid, pivoted at one end to the housing 4 aforesaid and carrying said valve or gate head at its inidlength as shown.

8 designates a'bearing roller journaled at the free end of the plate or frame 7, and

opening between the rollers 4, as the burning of the film releases the same from the iiormally existing tension on the same.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i s-- In a film reeling mechanism, the combination of a magazine having a peripheral gap,

a box shapedhousing secured to the magazine outside said gap. a pair of rollers journ'aledv in said housing :in close parallely reform in cross-section attached to said. frame, lation to provide a narrow film orice for midway the length thereofand adapted the magazine, a valve carrying `frame piv-V When' released to't the Space betwee'the 10 'oted at one end to said housing and having aforesaid rollers, substantially as set forth.

5 at its lopposite end a bearing roller adapted Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day l to bear upon a. tensioned portion bf agpioof February, 1918.

ture film, and a Valvehead of-van angularl I BRUNO STECHBRT. 

